SML
SML - The Simple Markup Language
The Simple Markup Language is an easy and fast to type markup language. It only uses a minimal set of special characters and therefor feels very natural. It is line-based, and if you are a touch typist you will love it.
SML was specifically designed to be understandable for even non-computer experts. It is human-friendly, while also being machine-friendly. It has multi-language support and offers a 100% reliable encoding and decoding.
SML is a lightweight markup language but still powerful and flexible. It is meant to be an alternative for XML, JSON and YAML.
It is especially suited for hierarchical data, but can also nest tabular data with ease. Through its support for comments and whitespace-preserving loading and saving techniques, it is the number one choice for configuration files. But it's not limited to that.
Here is a simple example of an SML document, a simple message data structure:
Message From Andrew To James Timestamp 2021-01-02 15:43 Text "I'll be there at 5pm" End
SML is built upon:
- WhitespaceSV - The Whitespace-Separated Values Format (WSV)
- ReliableTXT - The Reliable Text File Format
Articles
Check out the introductory articles in different languages. They explain the rational behind SML's concepts.